James Murrell (c. – 16 December ), also known as Cunning Murrell, was an English cunning man, or professional folk magician, . One held that he was able to predict the death of a man to the "very day and hour" while another was.
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Mary Magdalene a church that was famous far beyond the bounds of Toronto and of Canada as a great place for Gregorian chant and early English service music, some of it sung in Latin. The ritual that went with it was fascinating to someone of my theatrical leaning because it was a show, but it was a show in order to evoke a sense of worship and of otherness and of a mystical approach to religion. Mary Magdalene was a plum pudding of a church. I have written the libretto for an opera which is being composed for the Canadian Opera Company by Randolph Peters, a western Canadian.
The theme of the libretto is The Golden Ass. Why does it appeal to you? Sir William Osler, a great humanist as well as a terrific doctor, said that it was the greatest book of psychiatry that had ever been written by a layman, unbeatable for depth of interest and just sheer wondrous curiosity about mankind. I was fascinated with it from my schooldays and have taken pleasure in it all my life.
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Apparently Paracelsus was a very remarkable healer but he was, like Osler, a charismatic healer. Murders and suicides happen frequently in your stories. What draws you to write about the deliberate ending of a life? Well, you see, for twenty years I was a journalist. I became aware that there was an awful lot of suicide that was never identified as such because it was thought to be disgraceful.
And it occurred to me that probably more deaths were murder than was commonly admitted.
And that some of the murders were prolonged and dreadful in a marriage. People talk about being nagged to death and I think some people are. And it is a two-way thing. Men can make their wives feel so unworthy and so wretched that the poor creatures just more or less shrivel up. I think that this is murder, too, of a very vicious kind. He needed to do that. Characters in The Cunning Man refer to the soul, to saints, to the various kinds of prayer, and you yourself are a religious man.
Have your beliefs changed as you have grown older?
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I was fed, at an early age, the so-called Shorter Catechism of the Presbyterian church, which is full of admirably phrased and succinct answers to some very, very difficult religious questions. I literally never meet anybody who ever talks about God as something other than a kind of big man. I think God is a wondrous spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, but only interested in men as part of a giant creation which is pulsing with life. People say, when a relative dies: A lot gets spilled, you know, in nature.
I think that that is the way that God functions. But by trying to ally ourselves with the totality of things, we may get into tao as they say in the East and be part of it, really take part in it, and not just regard ourselves as a kind of miraculous creation and the rest just sort of stage scenery against which we perform. Well, you see, Evil, if you look at long stretches of history, you are astonished at how often extraordinarily evil things have outcomes which cannot be regarded as Evil.
They are part of evolution.
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They are part of the destruction and, in human terms, despair and wretchedness, which seem to be necessary in getting on with the greater job of keeping the universe going. Of course, I do believe that there is a power of Evil and a reality of Evil and that you just have to do your uttermost not to get caught up in it and abandon yourself to it, which people sometimes do. You have said that none of your trilogies were planned to be such at the beginning.
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Barretts work acted as a summation of material he had himself copied at different times, either from the extremely rare books supposedly loaned to him by Denley or as is more likely directly from other manuscripts of the same material in which Denley traded, and which Barrett no doubt transcribed whilst employed in Denleys establishment. Indeed the only pictorial figure in evidence is at the front: Griffith in Herefordhshire who apprenticed as an engraver and who produced talismans for Parkins in exchange for the printed copies of works Parkins produced and which Griffith sold.
Indeed it has become evident that Parkins and Griffith were part of an established network of cunning men before either met Barrett. In one example of an early 19th century cunning man from Wales their manuscript spells and collected almanack material exists alongside a collection of printed blank bills for their services: In the case of Dr John parkins evidence exists to show he had established a country-wide network for the distribution of both printed herbals actually new editions of Culpepper with additional material of his own as well as cheap printed almanacks and written charms and talismans.
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An assessment of this low-trade is difficult as there is little recorded history, but in one case an elderly almanac seller of Lincoln who distributed material for Dr. John Parkins as well as being a renowned seller of fish! Thomas Carr elderly almanac seller of Lincoln The person of Dr. John Parkins itself presents a mystery: He married and later moved to London where he is believed to have lived for a time with Ebenezer Sibley.
Parkins no doubt took up the role of copyist of manuscripts at Sibleys house as Barrett later did at John Denleys shop and then much later Frederick Hockley also and may have involved himself in the procurement and preparation of herbal ingredients and remedies for Denleys customers, an occupation for which he was already well suited. Two death metal legends unite for a once-in-a-lifetime LP; rife with classic appeal and flavor, it's a manifesto that works in any era.
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